The Toccoa Falls College baseball team is back at home for a scheduled doubleheader today after taking two of three games over the weekend. The Eagles traveled to Hiwassee College in Tennessee on Friday and Saturday for three games. TFC lost the first game 6-1, mustering only a solo home run from Josh Hill....

Stephens County will have three contested county commission races in this year’s May primary. Candidate qualifying ended Friday afternoon. Incumbent Republican County Commissioners Stanley London and Dean Scarborough will both face opposition in their bids for re-election. Jonesy Haygood qualified as a Republican to challenge London for the Post Four seat and Charles “Chuck”...

Early voting is continuing in Stephens County for the special election to fill the remainder of the unexpired term of the late Harold Andrews on the Stephens County Commission. Michelle Grafton and Ralph Stowe are both running to serve out the term, which ends on December 31. Stephens County Registrar Theresa Kelley said that...

Toccoa City Commissioners will hold a regularly scheduled meeting later today. It is the commission’s first scheduled meeting for the month of March. City commissioners will start the meeting at 5 p.m. at Toccoa City Hall. Items on today’s meeting agenda for the Toccoa City Commission include a bid opening for the construction of...

The community comes out to recognize Toccoa’s own Evan Oglesby for the development of his Evan Oglesby Foundation Center. A Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting was held Thursday at the center, which is at the old Toccoa High School gym on Pond Street in Toccoa. Oglesby is a Stephens County High School graduate...

Investigators are still working to try to figure out what caused the fire that damaged several businesses on the square in downtown Clarkesville last week. Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s Office Spokesman Glenn Allen said that investigators took samples from the scene of the fire and have sent those to the crime lab...